4) If the woman you gave your calling card to not only gets into your flat but is playing golf half naked by the time you come home, either she's also a spy or you forgot to lock your door.

5) A good spy always makes that freelance photographers at the Kingston, Jamaica airport can't get a photo of his face.

6) Never let the henchman who just tried to kill you get a cigarette for his own cigarette pack, because one of them will be laced with cyanide and he'll die before you can get any information out of him.

7) People from the Cayman Islands don't have a clear idea of what dragons actually look like.

8) To make a nuclear reactor explode you only need to turn a wheel clockwise enough times to pass a big red warning label.

9) Secret criminal organisations have underwater lairs with ducts thru which large amounts of water periodically flows. Despite these ducts opening onto rooms via wire grates, the water mysteriously never enters these rooms.

10) To ensure you get a good night's sleep, SPECTRE will drug your coffee.

11) It established the longest running American produced film franchise in history. Only Godzilla has lasted longer. Bond is better looking though.

12) Jokes about stolen paintings lose cultural impact decades later.*

13) Killing spiders comes with its own dramatic soundtrack.

*When Bond and Honey enter Dr. No's lair they see a painting on the wall. A portrait of the Duke of Wellington.

The painting was stolen from the National Gallery on 21 August 1961. It was later returned and Kempton Bunton confessed to taking the painting and its frame in July 1965. Following a high-profile trial in which he was defended by Jeremy Hutchinson, QC, Bunton was found not guilty of stealing the painting, but guilty of stealing the frame.

The theft entered popular culture, as it was referenced in the 1962 James Bond film Dr. No. In the film, the painting was on display in Dr. Julius No's lair, suggesting the first Bond villain had stolen the work.